1. I love the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe novels. We own a number of them, picked up over the years at used book sales. I've read most of his NW novels.
2. I also love the James Herriot books. The vet who wrote those books (Herriot was a pseudonym) practiced in Thirsk, Yorkshire, where an aunt and uncle of mine lived for many years and where I visited several times. Beautiful country.
The All Critter books are the best jury duty reading ever! If you can find the tv series [ran on PBS, way, way back], it's quite wonderful, very true to the books, with bonus Robert Hardy & Peter Davison!
It's one of the ones I seem to have skipped, but it comes up frequently in fanfic exchanges and such, so I jumped on the free copy from Early Bird Books (I know there are other free copies, but I like how theirs are formatted).
I enjoyed it but I think I liked A Little Princess better.
I imprinted on _A Little Princess_ so hard, when Christmas shopping with my mom shortly thereafter, I saw a doll and exclaimed, "Hello, Ermengarde!" My mom [in the next aisle] thought I had met a kid from school with a mom who loved her not. ;)
I also imprinted on _Secret Garden_, which led directly [via Yorkshire dialect] to the All Critter books. _Secret Garden_ is always fun, but best of all with the Tasha Tudor illustrations. [The Margaret O'Brien movie's pretty good, too.]
_Little Lord Fauntleroy_ is very good, actually quite subversive of the tropes later associated with it [kind of like how Louisa May Alcott, contrary to her goodie-goodie reputation, is actually a very radical feminist]. _The Lost Prince_ is also very well done of its kind, but be sure to get the unabridged version, so you don't miss out.
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2. I also love the James Herriot books. The vet who wrote those books (Herriot was a pseudonym) practiced in Thirsk, Yorkshire, where an aunt and uncle of mine lived for many years and where I visited several times. Beautiful country.
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So far I've read ACGS and ATBB, and I have Wise and Wonderful on the Kindle right now.
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I enjoyed it but I think I liked A Little Princess better.
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I also imprinted on _Secret Garden_, which led directly [via Yorkshire dialect] to the All Critter books. _Secret Garden_ is always fun, but best of all with the Tasha Tudor illustrations. [The Margaret O'Brien movie's pretty good, too.]
_Little Lord Fauntleroy_ is very good, actually quite subversive of the tropes later associated with it [kind of like how Louisa May Alcott, contrary to her goodie-goodie reputation, is actually a very radical feminist]. _The Lost Prince_ is also very well done of its kind, but be sure to get the unabridged version, so you don't miss out.
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I've read the Lost Prince and enjoyed it.
Must look for the Tasha Tudor illos - the Kindle one has no pictures.
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